6. Ask A Triceratops

I just use Notepad because I eschew formatting. I asked around to see what everybody else uses:

Camestros: First choice is Excel, then Word, then Pages (Mac), then Text Wrangler, then Notepad++ (he was unwilling to accept that Excel is not a writing program)

Timothy: Libre Office, Word

Straw Puppy: Scrivener

Mr Atomic: internal OS text editor

Random squirrel teasing Timothy: Microsoft Publisher

Nice Lady from the Post Office: Adobe In-Design (Creative Cloud)

Bortsworth Drycleaners: GNU emacs

Shadowy figure spotted in the abandoned Woolworths: astral projection of blood that seeps through the plaster of your walls

There are so many choices! Pick one that has the features you need for the writing you want to do. The only one I’d advise against is the one based on an ancient eldritch evil that may consume your soul i.e Microsoft Publisher.

Oh dear. I use an old DOS WordPerfect 5.1 for [this], some much newer versions of WordPerfect for [that and the other], Libre Office for [anything that requires the horror of opening Word documents], and two different varieties of entirely home-made software for the twin horrors of [SF Encyclopedia] and [everything else but mostly ebooks]. I think Notepad comes into it somewhere too, but only because I haven’t got around to changing the default for .txt files.